Threshold Warden

"The site isn't haunted. It's strained. Something has been pressing against this point for a long time, and nobody has been paying attention. That's what I'm here for."

Favored Save: Wit Save (+1D to Wit + Resolve rolls)

Power Access: Glamourist (optional). Warden work, assessing what is actually present at a threshold site, seeing through the surface presentation of a location or entity, reading the condition of a space, maps directly onto the Glamourist tradition's perceptive expressions.

Starting Resources: Society credentials (recognized by organizations that have signed Accord agreements as neutral-party identification; extends professional courtesy and usually safe passage), a regional threshold map for the Warden's assigned area (marked with documented sensitive sites, historical fracture points, and current monitoring notes), and access to the Society's field consultation network, other Wardens and the support staff who maintain the archive.

Lineage Affinity: Faeborn. Haunt practitioners have significant overlap with the threshold-monitoring function and are over-represented relative to their population. Human Wardens exist and often bring technical approaches to monitoring work that complement the perceptual advantages of Faeborn colleagues.

Progression Track: Threshold Warden

Stage 1 (10 XP), Field Qualified
  The Warden has enough assessment experience to read a threshold
  site without prompting and enough Society standing to be taken
  seriously when they report what they find.
  - Liminal Assessment: Once per scene, the Warden may assess a
    location's Veil integrity without a roll. The GM provides
    qualitative information about the site's condition: stable,
    under stress, actively thinning, or fractured. Stable sites
    produce no further information; stressed or fractured sites
    indicate direction and apparent cause.
  - Site Access: The Warden has standing access to one documented
    threshold location in their region, a site the Society has
    formally flagged, where the Warden's presence is expected and
    their assessments are part of the monitoring record.

Stage 2 (25 XP), Senior Warden
  The Warden has managed enough threshold events to have a practiced
  response, and the Society trusts their judgment on field decisions.
  - Breach Containment: The Warden can attempt to contain an active
    Veil fracture, not seal it, but hold it stable until a full
    response can be assembled. Wit + Resolve vs Threshold 3; success
    holds the breach for the scene. On a failed roll, the breach
    expands by one category of severity before stabilizing. This can
    be reattempted each scene; each attempt requires the Warden's
    full attention for the scene's duration.
  - Regional Network: The Warden's threshold map has expanded to
    cover their full region, including sites not in the standard
    monitoring rotation. The Warden knows where the thin points are
    and has contacts, local practitioners, community members,
    property owners, at most of them.

Stage 3 (50 XP), Threshold Authority
  The Standing Circle recognizes the Warden as the Society's primary
  representative for threshold conditions in their region. Other
  practitioners and organizations are expected to defer to their
  assessment; the Warden has the authority to make decisions that
  commit the Society's institutional standing.
  - Site Designation: The Warden may formally designate a location
    as a protected threshold site, a site the Society has assessed
    as requiring ongoing protection from interference. The designation
    carries Society recognition and, in practice, the expectation
    that organizations with Accord agreements will not conduct
    operations at the site without Society clearance. Enforcing this
    expectation requires the Warden to invoke the Society's diplomatic
    standing; it is not automatic.
  - Anchor Consultation: The Warden has been briefed on the Anchor
    Cases and has standing access to the archive documentation. They
    know who the three anchors are, what they are maintaining, and
    what the Society's obligations to them are. This knowledge is
    classified; sharing it outside the Society is a breach of
    standing that the Circle treats seriously.